It was early morning. The sound of a plane woke me up and I thought to myself, “that plane must be flying very low.” I was staying at the (now demolished) Hotel Pennsylvania, across from the Madison Square Garden, midtown Manhattan. I looked at the clock and decided it was time to get up—it was...
After Texas defended itself with a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande, the Biden administration went on the attack against Texans. As Washington, D.C., refuses to defend Texas, and even sides with Texas’ foreign antagonists over a buoy barrier meant to prevent illegal immigration, it brings to mind when Rome abandoned Britain. In the violence...
In the media coverage, a federal district judge’s admonishment of attorneys for the state of Texas on Tuesday was portrayed as a loss for Gov. Greg Abbott and his border-securing Operation Lone Star. It wasn’t. If anything, it was the Department of Justice’s case that floundered. DOJ sued Texas last month over the buoy barriers...
Mexican government is no partner of U.S. on illegal immigration. The Department of Justice and the state of Texas faced off in a preliminary injunction hearing on Tuesday, in which DOJ demanded that Texas remove the marine barrier in the Rio Grande. While it was clear that there would be pushback from the Biden administration,...
The preliminary injunction hearing in the case filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against Gov. Abbott and the state of Texas for the removal of the 1,000-foot buoy barrier took place on Tuesday, August 22. The DOJ alleged that the state of Texas, in violation of the Rivers and Harbors Act (RHA), built a...
The coyote—a human smuggler—armed with what appeared to be an AR-style rifle, directed migrants as they crossed the river between Piedras Negras, Mexico, and Eagle Pass, Texas. Scanning the shore and the brush beyond, he ensured his charges were across, then he slipped back into Mexico. This is what drone footage captured on Aug. 2...
Last week, several House Democrats finally visited the U.S. Southern border. But it was not to witness the ongoing crisis; rather, it was to see the buoy barrier that was put in place by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to deter illegal crossings from Mexico into the U.S. via the Rio Grande River. They were quick...
It is the responsibility of the U.S. government to secure the border and protect American citizens. After years of inaction by the Biden administration, the state of Texas has utilized its authority to respond to the crisis. In June, Gov. Abbott directed that a marine barrier be placed in the Rio Grande to deter migrant...
I was watching Taylor Sheridan’s new series “Lioness” recently, and I was surprised that a specific scene was actually aired—not because it was shocking, but because it was true. A hot extraction for a CIA operative in a rural south Texas town was going down, and when it was accomplished, one agent expressed his fear...
While Texas continues to attempt to secure its border, the Department of Justice (DOJ) disagrees with its methods. The DOJ filed a lawsuit on Monday against Texas for its use of the buoy marine barrier system, a system which has been implemented to protect lives and deter illegal border crossings along the Rio Grande River. The floating...
Not content with creating the humanitarian crisis Texans are facing at their southern border, the federal government is now adding insult to injury by threatening to sue Texas over a floating barrier the state is now using to ensure the integrity of its border. In early July, Texas installed a 1,000-feet marine buoy barrier in...
Transnational criminal organizations are raking in $13 billion annually. As the United States continues to see record numbers of aliens illegally entering the country, all objective observers have reached a consensus: No alien enters the U.S. between the ports of entry via the southwestern border without paying someone in Mexico. The effective takeover of large swaths...